Report - Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.10

Does Akismet Anti-Spam work with WordPress 5.8 and PHP 7.4.8? A smoke test was performed on 2021-07-20 17:44:21 UTC.

Summary

Errors

	No PHP errors, warnings or notices
3	JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors

Performance

Memory usage: 60.1 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment

WordPress version	5.8
PHP version	7.4.8
MySQL version	8.0.21
PHP memory limit	256M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2026-04-23T22:34:00+00:00
Active installs	6,000,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 4

Akismet Anti-Spam ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=akismet-key-config&view=start
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=akismet%2Fakismet.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=fe7818ddec
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.434 s
Memory usage	3.1 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Settings → Akismet Anti-Spam

URL	/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=akismet-key-config
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.225 s
Memory usage	3.07 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.213 s
Memory usage	2.94 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect	new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.864 s
Memory usage	4.53 MiB
JS errors	[ { "message": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined\n at belowEntryMetaClass (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:124:33)\n at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:211:3)\n at e (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30038)\n at t (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30340)", "trace": null, "code": null }, { "message": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined\n at belowEntryMetaClass (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:124:33)\n at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:211:3)\n at e (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30038)\n at t (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30340)", "trace": null, "code": null }, { "message": "TypeError: Cannot read property 'top' of undefined\n at belowEntryMetaClass (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:124:33)\n at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (/wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen/assets/js/global.js?ver=20190121:211:3)\n at e (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30038)\n at t (/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,utils&ver=5.8:2:30340)", "trace": null, "code": null } ]
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.320 s	0.278 s	-0.042 s	3.08 MiB	3.14 MiB	+ 61.87 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.195 s	0.219 s	+0.024 s	3.11 MiB	3.23 MiB	+ 122.17 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	1.250 s	1.073 s	-0.177 s	5.27 MiB	5.34 MiB	+ 78.76 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.584 s	0.302 s	-0.282 s	3.03 MiB	3.09 MiB	+ 57.77 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.143 s	0.147 s	+0.004 s	3.02 MiB	3.06 MiB	+ 41.02 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.268 s	0.374 s	+0.106 s	3.01 MiB	3.06 MiB	+ 57.95 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.225 s	0.178 s	-0.047 s	3.04 MiB	3.09 MiB	+ 58.12 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	1.103 s	0.680 s	-0.423 s	5.26 MiB	5.33 MiB	+ 78.34 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.326 s	0.282 s	-0.044 s	3 MiB	3.06 MiB	+ 57.52 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.268 s	0.241 s	-0.027 s	3.04 MiB	3.1 MiB	+ 61.3 KiB
/	0.306 s	0.262 s	-0.044 s	2.96 MiB	2.94 MiB	- 13.74 KiB
Average	0.453 s	0.367 s	-0.087 s	3.44 MiB	3.5 MiB	+ 60.1 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP

CSS

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	77.5%	3,081	649	19
	CSS	14.7%	583	3	1
	JavaScript	7.9%	314	55	2
Total			3,978	707	22

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	2,556
Total complexity	721
Median class complexity	35.0
Median method complexity	3.0
Most complex class	Akismet
Most complex function	Akismet::auto_check_comment()

Classes	5
Methods	125
Functions	62

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Options `wp_options` 1

widget_akismet_widget

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
akismet_widget	Akismet Widget

Meta Boxes

{
    "comment": {
        "akismet-status": {
            "title": "Comment History",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Akismet Anti-Spam 4.1.10